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D Drawings and Descriptions of Weather Phenomena
D Drawings and Descriptions of Weather Phenomena
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The "eye of the storm" (hurricane, typhoon) is the roughly circular area of comparatively light winds and fair weather found at the center of a severe tropical cyclone.
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This is a relatively new storm type whose existence has been confirmed by data from the new Doppler radars in the eastern half of the United States. Differentiating on a scale is useful here because of the greater difficulty in detecting these smaller rotations.
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Side B Velocity signature-The velocity signature of a macroburst shows a broad pattern of approaching and receding velocities associated with the strong divergent storm outflow, depicted on the right side of the figure.
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Stratiform rain is horizontally widespread in character, typically associated with macroscale fronts and pressure systems. Stratiform snow has the same features as Stratiform rain except precipitation is in the form of snow.
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Lake-effect snow is caused by relatively cold air flowing over warm water. In the United States, this phenomenon is most noted along the south and east shores of the Great Lakes during arctic cold-air outbreaks.
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